Actor John Travolta and his legal team are dismayed that the alleged behavior of a juror led to a mistrial in the case of two people accused of attempting to extort millions from Travolta, his representative said.
Actor John Travolta and his legal team are dismayed that the alleged behavior of a juror led to a mistrial in the case of two people accused of attempting to extort millions from Travolta, his representative said.
Videotapes secretly recorded by John Travolta's attorney were played Monday at the trial of two people accused of trying to extort millions of dollars from the actor after his son died in the Bahamas in January.
Actor John Travolta and his legal team are dismayed that the alleged behavior of a juror led to a mistrial in the case of two people accused of attempting to extort millions from Travolta, his representative said.
Actor John Travolta and his legal team are dismayed that the alleged behavior of a juror led to a mistrial in the case of two people accused of attempting to extort millions from Travolta, his representative said.
Videotapes secretly recorded by John Travolta's attorney were played Monday at the trial of two people accused of trying to extort millions of dollars from the actor after his son died in the Bahamas in January.
John Travolta testified Wednesday that would-be extortionists threatened to go the media with stories implying "the death of my son was intentional and I was culpable somehow."
John Travolta's lawyer testified Tuesday that the paramedic who drove Travolta's son to a hospital the day he died later wanted money for documents the driver suggested could be detrimental to the actor.
John Travolta spoke publicly for the first time Wednesday about his desperate efforts to save his teenage son's life after he suffered a seizure at the family's vacation home in the Bahamas in January.
John Travolta has traveled to the Bahamas and is prepared to be the first witness Tuesday in an extortion case linked to his 16-year-old son's death, a source told PEOPLE.
The AMC series "Mad Men" has been honored for its sharp writing, polished acting and engaging portrayal of life at a New York advertising agency in the early 1960s.
Actress Kelly Preston, whose son Jett Travolta died earlier this year, will talk publicly in October about how she and her husband, actor John Travolta, have dealt with their grief.
Denzel Washington's new movie, "The Taking of Pelham 123," is not a remake, even though Walter Matthau starred in a film by the same name in 1974, the actor told CNN.
The 1974 subterranean thriller "The Taking of Pelham One Two Three" isn't what anyone would call an untouchable classic. If it's remembered for anything, it's for the hangdog Walter Matthau's garish shirt/tie combinations and the squalor of New York's subways.
With the late evening sun casting a dramatic light across the 65th floor of an empty Hong Kong office block, everything was primed for a spectacular entrance from Hong Kong filmmaker John Woo.
An investigation is under way in the Bahamas into a report that someone has tried to extort money from John Travolta in relation to the death of his son, a Bahamian police official said Friday.
John Travolta, in a letter thanking his Ocala, Florida, neighbors for sympathy shown in the wake of his teenage son's death, asked them to love their friends and family "like there was no tomorrow."
As a parent, you wake up in the morning thinking about what you should fix for your kids for breakfast. What time do they need to get to ballet or soccer practice? Who should pick them up from school? Then, they're your last thoughts as you go to bed.
The 16-year-old son of actors John Travolta and Kelly Preston died Friday morning after suffering a seizure while vacationing with his family in the Bahamas, Travolta's attorney told CNN.
"Bolt" is Disney's first animated feature since Pixar guru John Lasseter took over the company's animation division, so it's no surprise the voice cast is loaded with top talent. John Travolta makes his voice actor debut in the title role, "Hannah Montana" star Miley Cyrus plays Bolt's owner and friend, and then there's 13-year Disney veteran Mark Walton.
• John Travolta and Kelly Preston, hitting the red
carpet at the same time as Miley Cyrus – creating a logjam.
Cyrus gets help from Mom fixing her hair before posing for the cameras, and
before her last photo call she reapplies her lipstick and blows a kiss to
the crowd.
Although Heath Ledger's career was cut tragically short with his death on Tuesday, he remains an inspiration to fellow actors whose thoughts turned to him that very night.
Want to own a piece of pop culture history? Good news: John Travolta's custom-designed Pontiac Firebird – dubbed "Travolta Fever" – is on the online auction block.
Nikki Blonsky. The name doesn't exactly sing. It's at least as flat -- and, if you'll pardon the expression, as "ethnic" -- as Tracy Turnblad, the dance-crazy Baltimore teenager Ms. Blonsky plays in "Hairspray."
Are Zac Efron and Vanessa Hudgens the Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie of the teen set? The High School Musical costars made for a decidedly wholesome power couple at Tuesday night's Hairspray premiere in L.A.
One Harley-driving suburban weekend warrior in "Wild Hogs" submits meekly to a bossy wife who treats him like a dog, literally, snapping at him to "Stay!" and "Come!"
Last week SI writer Richard Deitsch interviewed John Travolta for the magazine's Q&A. The actor co-stars in Wild Hogs, which opens March 2. Here are additional excerpts from their interview.
It's a genius idea, the notion of incorporating the shock effect of Kirstie Alley's recent substantial weight gain into an autobio sitcom about a substantially heavier Kirstie Alley.
Prevailed upon, back in the day, to explain rhythm, the legendary jazzman Thomas "Fats" Waller is reputed to have said, "Lady, if you got to ask, you ain't got it."
The Merchant Ivory team makes coffee-table movies -- elegantly appointed dramas whose impeccable taste often smothers them. "Howards End" is the grand exception, an achingly poignant literary adaptation that even action-movie junkies recognize as the real deal.
There's an old Monty Python sketch, "Sam Peckinpah's 'Salad Days,' " in which a gathering of 1920s English country swells is interrupted by a man asking, "Tennis, anyone?"
Strange things grow in the swampland of central Florida--including oddball communities. There's Cassadaga, town of psychics; Gibsonton, trailer park of circus freaks; and now Jumbolair, a gated com...
Months after the tech wreck, investors across the country are still mourning the evaporation of $5 trillion in equity. Hey, tough break--now snap out of it. Remember, this is America, land of the c...
We'd never chug cabernet from a bottle, but Americans think that it's different with beer. John Travolta, leaning languidly against the bar in Urban Cowboy, captured our odd romance with longnecks....
If you've watched TV news lately, you've probably seen a ceremonial live lottery drawing, which is almost inevitably monitored by a KPMG auditor. The careful scrutiny goes back to a 1980 incident k...
There's that one high-school photo--you know the one--where you're the living, breathing definition of cool. You're dressed in your favorite funky psychedelic polyester shirt, bell-bottom pants tha...
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